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Eric Entrican Wilson Associate Professor Department of Philosophy Georgia State University, Atlanta [email protected]

Employment

Associate Professor of Philosophy, Georgia State University (2015– ) Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Georgia State University (2010–15) Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Loyola University Maryland (2008–10) Visiting Assistant Professor of Humanities, Oxford College of Emory University (2007–08)

Education

Ph.D., Emory University (2007) Collegium Philosophiae Transatlanticum, Philipps-Universität Marburg (2001–02) M.A., Duquesne University (1999) B.A. (Summa cum laude), Loyola University New Orleans (1996)

Areas of Research

Kant, Ethics, Early Modern Philosophy

Journal Articles & Book Chapters

1. “Habitual Desire: On Kant’s Concept of Inclination,” Kantian Review 21.2 (2016) 2. “Kant and the Selfish Hypothesis,” Social Theory & Practice 41.3 (July 2015) 3. “Self-Legislation and Self-Command in Kant’s Ethics,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 96 (2015) 4. “Kant’s Moral Philosophy,” in The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, ed. Aaron Garrett (New York: Routledge 2014) 5. “Kant on Autonomy and the Value of Persons,” Kantian Review 18.2 (2013) 6. “Fichte’s Break with Representationalism,” Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 17.3 (2011) [French title: “Comment Fichte rompt avec la representation”] 7. “On the Nature of Judgment in Kant’s Transcendental Logic,” Idealistic Studies 40.1–2 (2010) 8. “Is Kant’s Concept of Autonomy Absurd?”, History of Philosophy Quarterly 26.2 (April 2009) 9. “Kantian Autonomy and the Moral Self,” The Review of Metaphysics 62.2 (December 2008) 10. “Absolute Identity and Hegel’s Treatment of Concepts and Intuitions in Glauben und Wissen,” Das Hegel Jahrbuch, Teil 2 (2004) 11. “The Aura of Recognition: Walter Benjamin and Kaja Silverman on the Aesthetization of Politics,” Theory & Event 4.2 (2000)

Book Reviews, Encyclopedia Articles, etc.

1. Review of Robert Stern, Kantian Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2015). In Kantian Review (forthcoming),

1 2. “Servility,” in The Cambridge Kant Lexicon, ed. Julian Wuerth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (forthcoming) 3. “Apathy,” in The Cambridge Kant Lexicon, ed. Julian Wuerth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (forthcoming) 4. “Arrogance,” in The Cambridge Kant Lexicon, ed. Julian Wuerth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (forthcoming) 5. Review of Kristi Sweet, Kant on Practical Life (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013). In Kantian Review 20.1 (2015) 6. Review of Robert Stern, Understanding Obligation: Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard (Cambridge University Press, 2012). In Kantian Review 18.3 (2013) 7. Review of Susan Meld Shell, Kant and the Limits of Autonomy (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009), in Journal of the History of Philosophy 51.2 (2013) 8. Review of Jay Rosenberg, Accessing Kant: A Relaxed Introduction to the ‘Critique of Pure Reason’ (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005), in Journal of the History of Philosophy 46.4 (2008) 9. Review of Richard Dean, The Value of Humanity in Kant’s Moral Theory (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006), in Journal of the History of Philosophy 46.2 (2008) 10. Review of Frederick Beiser, German Idealism: The Struggle Against Subjectivism 1781–1801 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press), in Journal of the History of Philosophy 41.2 (2003)

Grants, Awards, Prizes

• Winner: Wilfrid Sellars Essay Prize, North American Kant Society (2012) –– for “Kant on Autonomy and the Value of Persons” • Awarded to best essay on Kantian philosophy by scholar 40 years or younger • Georgia State University, Research Initiation Grant (2012) • Georgia State University, Course Development Grant, Writing Across the Curriculum (2012) • Winner: The Review of Metaphysics Dissertation Essay Prize (2007) –– for “Kantian Autonomy and the Moral Self” • Awarded to best essay based on a dissertation chapter • North American Kant Society Travel Stipend (2006) • Dean’s Writing Center Fellowship, Emory University (2005) • Dean’s Teaching Fellowship, Emory University (2004) • Emory University Internationalization Dissertation Research Award (2002) • Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Grant (1999)

Conferences, Colloquia, Workshops

• Invited Critic, Author-Meets-Critics Session on Rudolf Makkreel, Orientation and Judgment in Hermeneutics (University of Chicago Press, 2015), Bi-Annual Meeting, North American Kant Society (Summer 2016) • Discussion Leader: “Theological Morals in Disguise? Schopenhauer’s Critique of Kant,” Workshop on Kant’s Highest Good, Fox Center at Emory University (Spring 2014) • “On Inclination: Habitual Desire and the Structure of Motivation,” 4th Annual New York City Workshop in Early Modern philosophy (Spring 2014) • “Moral Self-Destruction: Kant on the Vice of Avarice” • Loyola University – Catholic Studies Speaker Series (Spring 2015) • German Studies Association (Fall 2013) • North American Kant Society, Southern Division (Spring 2014)

2 • Discussant: Liberty Fund Colloquium on Liberty and Self-Command in Kant and Smith (Spring 2013) • “Self-Legislation and Self-Command in Kant’s Ethics,” German Studies Association (Fall 2012) • “Kant on Suicide and the Unforsakeable,” Loyola University Maryland Catholic Studies Colloquium (Spring 2011) • “Self-Love and Self-Regard in Kant’s Ethics” • Georgia State University (Spring 2010) • APA, Central Division (Spring 2010) • “Is Kantian Autonomy Absurd?” Middlebury College (Spring 2008) • “Speaking for Us: Kant on the Authority of Aesthetic Judgment,” Oxford College of Emory University (Spring 2008) • “Why do we need a theory of judgment? Kant’s Other Reply to Hume” • North American Kant Society, Eastern Division (Spring 2006) • Georgia Philosophical Society (Spring 2006) • “Kant’s Critique of Hume’s Associationism,” Washington University in St. Louis (Spring 2005) • Comment on Robert Brandom, “Norms, Selves, and Concepts,” Emory University (2004) • Comment on Richard Rorty, “Grandeur, Profundity, and Finitude,” Emory University (2003) • “Am Anfang war die Tat: Fichte’s Early Move Away from Representationalism,” APA, Pacific Division (2003) • “Absolute Identity and Hegel’s Treatment of Concepts and Intuitions in Glauben und Wissen,” 24th International Hegel Congress (2002) • Comment on Karl Ameriks, “Kant’s Doctrine of Freedom” (2001) • “Responsibility and the Ethics of Fascination,” APA, Eastern Division (1999) • “The Auschwitz Model: Adorno’s Turn to the Subject,” APA, Eastern Division (1998)

Courses taught at Georgia State University (2010)

• 8060: Kant’s Ethics (graduate seminar) • 8060: Kant & Human Nature (graduate seminar) • 8060: Enlightenment Moral Philosophy (graduate seminar) • 8060: Self-Interest (graduate seminar) • 40/6060: Kant (graduate/undergraduate) • 40/6055: Hume (graduate/undergraduate) • 40/6050 & 47/6750: History of Early Modern Ethics (graduate/undergraduate) • 3020: Early Modern Philosophy (undergraduate) • 2010: Introduction to Philosophy (undergraduate) • Directed Reading: Kant on Value (graduate)

Courses taught elsewhere (undergraduate)

• German Idealism • Human Nature in Early Modern Ethics • Free Will • Ancient Philosophy • Modern Philosophy • Introduction to Ethics • Introduction to Logic • Introduction to Philosophy

M.A. Thesis Advising at Georgia State

• Samuel Elalouf, “Vicious Virtues: Irreligion and Naturalism in Hume's Ethics” • Paul Dumond, “Is Kant’s Account of Free Will Coherent?” (in progress) • Robert Vanderbeek, “Kant’s Singularity Thesis” (in progress) • Leo Feldyblum, “Kant on the Moral Law: What It Is and How We Represent It” • Scott Collison, “Parents, Politicians, and the Public: Hume’s Natural History of Justice is Humean Enough (Summer 2016) • William Britton, “Kant on the Ground(s) of Dignity” (Spring 2016) • Maria Mejia, “A Defense of Categorical Imperatives and Kantian Moral Motivation,” (Spring 2016) • Brian Wilson, “Kant, Non-Conceptual Content, and the Role of Imagination” (unfinished) • Adam Shmidt, “Hume’s Cosmopolitanism: Global Justice as an Individual Virtue” (Spring 2014) • Sam Richards, “Can Adam Smith Answer the Normative Question?” (Spring 2013) • Lauren Papiernik, “Adam Smith on Virtue and Moral Judgment” (Spring 2013) • James Messina, “Kant on the Duty to Self-Knowledge” (Spring 2013) • Zeyu Chi, “The Meaning of Humanity in Kant’s Groundwork” (Spring 2013) • Shawn Murphy, “Betrayal of Love and Volitional Necessity,” co-directed with Eddy Nahmias (Fall 2012) • Patrick Cox, “Rousseau on the Effects of Learning on Moral Education” (Fall 2012) • Getty Lustilla, “Hume on the Nature of Moral Freedom” (Spring 2012) • Everett Fulmer, “Physics and Faith in Kant’s First Critique” (Spring 2012) • Anouschka Kaiser, “Hume’s Common Point of View and the Foundation of Moral Judgment” (unfinished)

Professional Service

• Journal Referee: History of Philosophy Quarterly (2015, 2016); Ergo (2014); Kantian Review (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016); Journal of Philosophical Research (2012); International Journal of Philosophical Studies (2010) • Conference Referee: Southwest Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy (2013) • Panel Chair: North American Kant Society, Eastern Study Group (2011)

Departmental & University Service

• Member, Departmental P&T Committee (2016) • Chair, Departmental Promotion Committee for Senior Principal Lecturer (2015) • Program Committee–Colloquium Director, GSU Philosophy Department (2012–16) • Assessment Committee Member, GSU Philosophy Department (2012–16) • Graduate Committee Member, GSU Philosophy Department (2012–15) • Graduate Admissions Sub-Committee: Modern Philosophy, GSU Philosophy Department (2011– 2016) • Undergraduate Committee Member, GSU Philosophy Department (2010–11; 2012–13; 2016) • Philosophy Major Advisor, GSU Philosophy Department (2011–12) • Search Committee Member, GSU Philosophy Department (2010–11) • Core Advisor, Loyola University Maryland (2009–10) • Alpha Program Faculty Member, Loyola University Maryland (2009–10)

4 Professional Affiliation

• American Philosophical Association • The North American Kant Society • The Hume Society • German Studies Association